Omar

LOL....was that Stro? Smoak didn't even get wet.

The guy just continues to impress....Smoak.

How was Osuna's velocity yesterday?

We got Zeked.

What a job by Barnes!

JD......so damn elite.

Perhaps but can Molina do this?

Prince Fielder...though dad was a doughboy as well.

lol........these guys miss KK

Not sure how many home runs he hit that were 400-440ft. If they all went 10% further then they would be warning track shots. Interesting exercise....a lot of variables. And sometimes we just get this ( the universe unfolds as it should).....

Perhaps somewhere in between? Perhaps the ball was juiced in the 90's.

I recall that they calculated 10% more distance from 3% increase in bat speed. Sounds high but because the batter has faster reaction time, gets better wood on the ball etc. the effects are huge.

Well bat speed shouldnt increase the further a player gets out of his prime years (see Barry Bonds). We have pitch velocity and homerun distance plus factor in bat weight and factor in some coefficients.....some tall foreheads can give you batspeed.

Thats why my original post said...

For further reading check out The Physics of Baseball by Prof Robert Adair (chapter 6 is about bat weight, bat speed and presents in precis form the where the up to 5% number comes from. https://www.amazon.ca/Physics-Baseball-Revised-Updated-Expanded/dp/0060084367 ....only if you like math, science and unsupported theories.

It was also published in the Baseball Research Journal a year later in 2009.

The article was published in the American journal of Physics in 2008....a peer reviewed publication. I have the copy in my basement somewhere and you're tempting me to go on a scavenger hunt. Where do you get the it is not supported by actual data? just math?

Hey man I'm trying to not come across as pedantic but did you check and listen to the first link in Scientific American where they state that Prof Tobin's work is the result of in depth number crunching? It's not speculative. The physics and physiological research can be summed up as 10% muscle mass increase leads to up to 5% increase in bat speed which correlates to a 4% inrease in exit velocity. An excerpt: Tobin initially argues that a 10 percent increase inmuscle mass leads to the batter supplying a 10 percentgreater force to the bat, resulting in a 5 percent increasein bat speed. The argument is essentially oneof energy conservation, where the work done by thebatter in applying a force to the bat over a fixed distanceis converted to kinetic energy of the bat. Since kinetic energy is proportional to the square of the velocity,a 10 percent greater force leads to a 5 percenti ncrease in bat speed. In a “Note added in proof,”Tobin revises his estimate downward to 3.8 percent,based on Robert K. Adair’s argument that the workprovided by the muscles is converted to kinetic energythat is shared between the bat and some fractionof the body mass of the batter, mainly the arms.2 Theessential point is that both the bat and the batter’sarms are moving. Therefore not all of the work providedby the body muscles goes into kinetic energy inthe bat, and a fraction must also go into kinetic energyof the body. In an unpublished article that I haveposted on my website,3 I have estimated that onlyabout half the kinetic energy goes into the bat. Withthe additional assumption that half of the batter’s presteroidweight is muscle, Tobin and I both agree that a10 percent increase in muscle mass can lead to abouta 3.8 percent increase in bat speed.

Force = Mass x Accelleration Look at obp and ba and hits of players on roids that also went up along with home runs. ''Steroids make your hands faster in that they increase muscle in your forearms and pectorals and numerous muscle sets involved in hitting a baseball,'' said Dr. Charles Yesalis, professor of health and human development at Penn State. If we dont believe experts well then....

https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/3967fe78-e7f2-99df-3d122bd4d1ae028b/ http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/14/sports/baseball-taking-a-swing-with-steroids.html http://baseballcrank.com/archives2/2005/01/baseball_yes_st.php

Wow....after Refs blunders yesterday guess we're due.

Yup. Roids give as much as a 5% increase in bat speed as well; not all about homerun power. #Collabello

Leone in throwing fire....love it.

Fitting that Refs get caught looking for the final out.